TheLadders Sued in Consumer Class Action That Calls Site a “Scam”
TheLadders is being sued in New York federal court in a class-action consumer lawsuit alleging that for years it falsely claimed it offered only high-paying jobs. Brought by an Arkansas woman...
View ArticleThe Case for Visual Job Descriptions
Over the past five to seven years, the recruitment industry has faced great disruption due to the advent of social media recruiting and a proliferation of new software tools. These changes have been...
View ArticleUse Performance-based Interviews When Recruiting Veterans
When the same peer group surrounds an individual for an extended period, movements, actions, and language of that group become second nature. Often times, this is seen in members of the United States...
View ArticleThe Magic Interview Question: Have You Failed in Your Career?
Typical interview questions center on candidates’ successes. What have they done that makes them right for a position? What is their greatest strength? When have they succeeded? These questions may aim...
View Article4 ERE Expo Sessions I’m Looking Forward To
The ERE Recruiting Conference & Expo is less than a month away. Here’s how Spring ERE is shaping up right now: Compared to the same time last year, there are 86% more in-house recruiting...
View ArticleSocial Recruiting: Marketing’s Secret Weapon
It’s not often talked about, but your company has a secret weapon when it comes to social media marketing: you. HR, though not traditionally considered a department positioned to drive external...
View Article45 Million Monthly Mobile LinkedIn Searches
We have all seen the stats: more and more people are using smartphones and tablets to connect to the web. We probably all use our own mobile phone to interact online every day. But what does this mean...
View ArticleBold Approaches for Successfully Retaining Every Innovator, Part 1 of 2
A retention toolkit for innovators Corporate executives are beginning to learn the high value of innovators, which can be 5 to 300 times the value of an average employee. If a company doesn’t have...
View ArticleHow to Create a Sourcing Strategy
While confusion seems to reign among recruiting leaders on how to build effective sourcing strategies, Donna Quintal at Sears Holdings Corporation has been able to craft a powerful set of analytics...
View ArticleHow Science-Tech-Engineering Employers Should Address Diversity
Diversity recruiting poses a particular challenge for employers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. STEM majors are a small group in high demand, and employers are faced...
View ArticleFrom the ERE Conference’s First Day: Are Recruiters Ready to Be Masters of...
No one ever said that recruiting was simple, or easy, and if you were listening Tuesday on Day 1 of the Spring 2013 ERE Recruiting Conference & Expo in San Diego, you know that there is an...
View ArticleKnow What You’re Recruiting For
A problem common to most recruiters and human resources professionals today is a lack of understanding the actual job they are trying to fill. It’s really a fine line a recruiter toes, because...
View ArticleERE Conference’s Final Day: Yes, the Robots Are Coming to a Workplace Near You
Remember when the talk was about the great future that was available for people working in plastics? Fast forward about 45 years, and now the discussion is about the huge changes coming to the...
View ArticleWhat Not to Ask In an Interview
You have read all about what to ask in an interview as well as magic questions that will solve all your hiring problems. What about what not to do? Make no mistake. An interview is not an opportunity...
View ArticleIn the War for Talent, a Beautiful Daughter’s Benefit Might Help
The way Chris Holmes quit his border security job must have made Gordon Ramsay proud. It wasn’t a bad-boy, burn-the-bridge resignation that has garnered all the attention for the 31-year-old new father...
View ArticleAdvanced Items for Your Recruiting Agenda — What Should Google Do Next?
During the newly reinvigorated and exciting ERE conference, two attendees posed related but powerful questions to me. The first was “What advanced topics should be on the agenda of recruiting leaders...
View ArticleHas Sourcing Become Scouring? (Then What?)
I was reading an article today about the ferocious talent wars for tech going on right now in Silicon Valley and a sentence caught my eye. “Whether she is scouring Stanford or Parsons for up-and-comers...
View ArticleFinally, Your Essential Overview of Hiring for Startups
The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good. — Joe Kraus, partner, Google Ventures Each company for which we recruit has a special set of circumstances and a...
View ArticleDice’s On Target Q1: A Foreshadowing of Job Board Slowdown?
If Dice Holdings is any kind of bellwether, Q1 is looking like it got off to a slow start for the publicly held job boards. The company reported this morning it earned 12 cents a share on $50.4 million...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You What a Good Recruiting Boss Is
I’ve had many recruiting bosses, sometimes in large organizations, sometimes in small. I’ve been privileged to have had a few who have been exceptionally good. Here’s what the good ones had in common,...
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